CVE-2025-52894 Information

Description

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage store and distribute sensitive data including secrets certificates and keys. OpenBao before v2.3.0 allowed an attacker to perform unauthenticated unaudited cancellation of root rekey and recovery rekey operations effecting a denial of service. In OpenBao v2.2.0 and later manually setting the configuration option disable_unauthed_rekey_endpoints=true allows an operator to deny these rarely-used endpoints on global listeners. A patch is available at commit fe75468822a22a88318c6079425357a02ae5b77b. In a future OpenBao release communicated on OpenBao’s website the maintainers will set this to true for all users and provide an authenticated alternative. As a workaround if an active proxy or load balancer sits in front of OpenBao an operator can deny requests to these endpoints from unauthorized IP ranges.

Reference

https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commit/fe75468822a22a88318c6079425357a02ae5b77b https://github.com/openbao/openbao/security/advisories/GHSA-prpj-rchp-9j5h https://openbao.org/docs/deprecation https://openbao.org/docs/deprecation/unauthed-rekey

Related CNNVD

CNNVD-202506-3192 (Published: 2025-06-25)